Writing for families, and for their parents.
These are about the ordinary parts of this — the guilt, the phone, the long flat afternoon, the pill box, the story she tells every time. We say where our own app fits and where it does not, and then we get out of the way. Read them without buying anything.
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Is it wrong to not want
to talk to your mother every day?
No, it isn't. Wanting fewer calls doesn't mean you love her less — and the guilt that says otherwise is measuring the wrong thing.
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Is it dishonest to have
an AI call your elderly parent?
It depends entirely on whether she knows. Where the honest version and the dishonest version actually split.
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What to say when
Mom asks why you don't call more
The reassuring answer and the honest answer are different sentences. Six situations, six honest ones.
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The guilt about not calling
Mom enough
Two feelings arrive together and get treated as one. Only one of them is a problem you can work on.
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When an elderly parent calls
multiple times a day
She calls six times a day, or she stops answering altogether. They sound like opposite problems. They are one phone being asked to carry two jobs at once.
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What does my elderly mother do all
day?
The CD player is eighteen inches from her chair and never gets switched on. Why that happens, and what changes it.
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How to remind an elderly parent to
take medication without nagging
Every way families try to solve the missed dose, and the exact place each one stops working. Ours is on that list, near the bottom.
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The stories she tells every
time — keep them
The proper sit-down recording never happens. The story you have heard forty times is the one worth having anyway.
If you would rather skip the reading, what families see and never see explains the app from your side, and this is the page to show your parent. Questions are welcome first — support@guardiansarah.com reaches a person, not a form.